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FUNERAL DISCOURSE 



DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 



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PREACHED SUNDAY, APRIL 23rd, 1865, "ZTli ^ 



SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH, CHICAGO. 



BY REV. E. J. GOODSPE] 



PASTOR. A N* 






'How ARE THE Mighty fallen!" 



CHICAGO: 

PUBLISHED BY THE TRUSTEES. 
1865. 



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CnURCH, GOODMAN & DONNELLEY, PRINTERS, 51 & 53 LA SALLE ST., CHICAGO. 



FUNERAL DISCOURSE 



ON THE 



DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



When the tidings of President Lincoln's assassination threw a gloom 
over all hearts, Chicago, the metropolis of his State, where he was first 
nominated for the Presidency, felt especially afflicted. The whole city 
was draped. The edifice of the Second Baptist Church was very 
solemnly and appropriately decorated. Two days after the murder, 
Sabbath, April 16th — a day never to be forgotten — the vast audience 
melted into tears while the Pastor read David's " lamentation over Saul 
and Jonathan," 2 Sam. i. 17-27 — " The beauty of Israel is slain iipon thy 
high places; hoio are the migJdy fallen." On the Wednesday following, 
a service was held, in accordance with suggestions fi-om Washington, at 
which several addresses were made by members of the congregation and 
others. On Sabbath morning, April 23rd, the Pastor preached a sermon 
for the occasion to a crowded congregation. A hymn was sung, written 
by Hon. E. Bixby, which is printed with the discourse. The singing 
was solemn and impressive, and the whole service was one of deep 
interest. In the evening, previous to the doxology, Hon. C. C. P. 
Holden rose and offered a resolution, which was cordially received by 
the large assembly, that an account of the exercises be preserved in 
printed form as a memento, and that the Pastor furnish the Trustees 
with a copy of the sermon preached by him on the death of President 
Lincoln. The discourse is here printed precisely as preached. 



H Y m: ]sr, 

TUNE— " PLEYEL'S HYMN." 

Written for and sung by the Choir and Congregation of tJie Second 
Baptist Church, April 2drd, 1865. 

"Why this grief? this anguish why ? 
That each breeze is bearing by 
'Tis the nation's wail of woe 
That our Chief has fallen low 

Wise and patient, kind and true, 
Savior of his country too ; 
Love of all the good he won : 
He shall live with Washington. 

Fallen, not as golden grain, 
Gathered on the harvest plain ! 
Yet the reaper, when he came, 
Found him trusting in God's name. 

Stricken by the cursed hand 
That has blood-stained all our land ! 
Though defiant man may smite, 
God is just. His ways are right! 

God of wisdom, love and power. 
Keep us in this fearful hour ! 
Soon may war's dread carnage end, 
To us peace with justice send. 



SERMON. 



The crime tliat lias bereaved a nation, as if a Father 
liad been struck down by the assassin's hand, has 
but one parallel in history. Another patriot states- 
man, the idol and hope and leader of his people, in 
whose nature were harmoniously blended those gen- 
tle, manly and popular qualities which endeared our 
own lamented President to so many hearts ; in the 
midst of his years, full of vigor and hope, after fierce 
and bloody struggles that seemed drawing to a 
triumphant close, was murdered by a fanatic, in the 
presence of his family, and died immediately, ex- 
claiming, " God have mercy on my soul — God have 
mercy on this poor people." 

As our deceased Chieftain treated the assassin 
kindly but an hour before the fatal wound was 
given, recognizing him with a genial smile, William 
of Orange received into his bed-chamber and supplied 
with money the ruffian who, a few hours after, shot 
his benefactor with the weapon purchased by that 
money. 

As the assassination that robbed the Netherlands 
of the wisest, purest and most reliable patriot that 
had ever lived among men, was suggested and abet- 
ted by the Spanish authorities who offered rewards 
for the life of Orange, and encouraged the murderer 



6 FUTTERAL DISCOUESE ON THE 

in his crime, I believe the wretch who foully slew 
our magnanimous, incorruptible and idolized Chief 
Magistrate was spurred and prompted to his plot, 
and aided in its execution by the Confederacy whose 
treachery and malignity, baffled in the attempt to 
take a nation^s life, fiendishly sought to strike the 
constituted head^ whose sagacity, firmness, honesty, 
courage and wisdom, under God, had thwarted their 
purpose. Thanks be to God that this is the last 
thrust of the monsters sting;: ! We have felt it more 
keenly than every other„ When Sumter fell, and 
the flag — symbol of our national honor and greatness 
and power — was torn and trodden by rebel hate ; 
when Ellsworth, gallant and chivalrous as knight of 
old, was shot with the starry banner around him by 
a desjDerate rufiian ; when the nation's defenders, 
hastening to the national capital to save it from the 
enemy, were assaulted by a mob in Baltimore, and 
the first blood was shed; when traitors developed 
themselves at the centre of government, and the 
crater of treason opened wider and wider at the 
foundations of the Temple of Liberty, till all seemed 
ready to be engulfed and buried for ever ; when the 
first great disasters of the war burst upon us like the 
lio-htnino-s of divine wrath, that threatened to shiver 
the fabric of free government and bury us all in its 
ruins ; when one grand event followed another, 
bringing tidings of carnage, desolation and wo, our 
hearts sunk within us, and we suifered a long agony 
of grief The night was disappearing. The stars of 
promise "were fading out in the glad light of the 
morning. When Charleston fell, the sun appeared, 



DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN". 7 

and we rapturously greeted the golden rim ttat rose 
above tbe horizon. When Kichmond, the cradle of 
secession and the den of rebellion, was purged, and 
Lee had surrendered, the orb of day broke full and 
clear into our sky, and woke everywhere the song of 
jubilee. There was scarce a limit to our joy and 
hope. The flying Lucifer of revolt might screech 
and shriek in helpless wrath, " We Avill never sur- 
render." Yet this only excited our merriment and 
pity. We Avere l)rimming Avith confidence that the 
glorious end was at hand. 

A distinguished company had proceeded to 
Charleston to raise over the battered fortress the 
banner that there first had been lowered to traitors. 
We all rejoiced that he Avho had held the helm 
through the storm Avas to guide the ship into the 
haven of peace amidst the acclamations of a grateful 
people. We had trembled for his life as he accom- 
panied our victorious army into the Confederate 
Capital, and dictated his messages from the chair 
defiled by the arch traitor Avho had plotted his des- 
truction and the ruin of his country. We breathed 
freer when the tidings flashed across the land that 
he was once more safely established in his own home. 

It was our settled conviction that he was to live to 
behold his country restored, and his OAvn policy vin- 
dicated. One enemy after another had ceased to 
traduce his name or challenge his prudence. Abused 
as no man since Washino-ton was ever abused — the 
taro;et of malice and is^norance from extremists of all 
parties and sections; denounced as a tyrant, and 
pitied as a weak tool of demagogues, or thv. subject 



8 FUNERAL DISCOUESE ON THE 

of womanly tenderness, unbecoming the ruler of a 
nation engaged in a stern struggle for life, lie was 
fast gaining the esteem and trust of all people who 
loved liberty throughout the world. 

We said he is God's chosen instrument to reconcile 
the conflicting elements, to allay animosities, to res- 
tore peace and tranquility, and save us from foreign 
war. As our veneral^le Secretary of State was likely 
to be removed from life, or from service at least, we 
gravitated trustingly and gratefully to the Patriot 
and Chieftain who seemed invulnerable and infallible. 

At this exultant moment, when the heart of the 
nation beat high with gladness and expectation. Oh ! 
what a blow came crashing through our sensibilities, 
our affections, and our sympathies ! It was too hor- 
rible to be credited ! But the information proceeded 
from a source that forbade doubt. The incidents 
Avere circumstantially related. Our President was 
brutally murdered, and the assassin was at large. 
Over all good men there fell a sickening horror. 
Business ceased. We were paralyzed by the shock, 
and sunk under our burden of woe. Bage was swal- 
lowed up in gi'ief. The deed was done, the mischief 
accomplished, and the death of the murderer would 
not brino; back our honored dead or heal the nation's 
wo. Men said they had sooner spared any member 
of their family. It was a heart-gi'iei that smote 
them. 

Our Friend, in whom our country was incarnate, 
the savior of our heritage, and the hoj)e of our future 
as citizens of the Bepublic, lies weltering in his 
blood; and we cannot be comforted! As Bobert 



DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 9 

Hall said at the funeral of the Princess Charlotte : 
" An unexampled depopulation of the species by the 
sword had indeed nearly rendered death the most 
familiar of all spectacles, and left few families unbe- 
reaved ; but neither the narrative of battles nor the 
sight of carnage are best suited to inculcate the lessons 
of mortality ; nor are the moral features of that last 
enemy ever less distinctly discerned than in the 
moment when he is most busy, or in those fields of 
slaughter where he appears the principal agent. The 
pomp and circumstance of war, the tumultuous emo- 
tions of the combatants, and the eager anxiety of the 
contending parties attentive to the important poli- 
tical consequences attached to victory and defeat, 
absorb every other impression, and obstruct the 
entrance of serious and pensive reflection. How 
different the example of mortality presented on the 
present occasion ! Without the slightest warning, 
without the opportunity of a moment's immediate 
preparation, in the midst of the deepest tranquility, 
at midnight, a voice was heard in the palace, not of 
singing men and singing women, not of revelry and 
mirth, but the cry, 'Behold, the Bridegroom cometh.' 
The mother in the bloom of youth, spared just long 
enough to hear the tidings of her infant's death, 
almost immediately, as if summoned by his spirit, 
follows him into eternity. ' It is a night much to be 
remembered.' Who foretold this event? Who con- 
jectured it ? Who detected at a distance the faintest 
presage of its approach, which, when it arrived, 
mocked the efforts of human skill, as much by their 
incapacity to prevent, as their inability to foresee it ! 



10 FUNEKAL DISCOURSE ON THE 

Unmoved by the tears of conjugal affection, unawed 
by the presence of grandeur and the prerogatives of 
power, inexorable death hastened to execute his 
stern commission, leaving nothing to royalty itself 
but to retire and weep. Who can fail on this awful 
occasion to discern the hand of Him, ' Who bringeth 
princes to nothing, who maketh the judges of the 
earth as vanity ; who says they shall not be planted ; 
yea, they shall not be sown ; yea, their stock shall 
not take root in the earth ; and he shall blow upon 
them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall 
take them away as stubble.' 

" 'It is better,' says Solomon, ' to go to the house of 
mourning than to the house of feasting, for that is 
the end of all men, and the living will lay it to 
heart'. 

" While there are few who are not, at some season 
or other, conducted to that house, a nation enters it 
on the present visitation, there to learn, in the 
sudden extinction of the heiress of her monarchy, 
the vanity of all but what relates to eternity, and 
the absolute necessity of having our loins girt, our 
lamps burning, and ourselves as those who are look- 
ing for the coming of the bridegroom." 

Shall not we, members of the American nation, 
to whom God has now spoken in tones more deep 
and solemn than on any other occasion, lay to heart 
the lesson of our mortality? We must die. The 
manner, the surroundings, the time of our decease? 
we cannot know ; therefore, be ever in an attitude of 
expectation, in a state of preparation, by firm habitual 
reliance on the mercy of our Savior, Jesus Christ. 



DEATH OF ABKAHAM LINCOLN. 11 

In common with many others, we felt it to he an 
aggravation of- the sorrow that lacerated our hearts, 
that our honored Father should have received his 
fatal wound in a theatre, and at the hands of an 
actor. Sustained by the prayers and sympathies 
and ardent cooperation of that class of community 
who regard theatres as royal roads to perdition, 
gilded snares of virtue and manhood, pitfalls where 
youthful feet stumble into vice, and crime, and ruin ; 
he, whose example was a power and carried tremen- 
dous influence — we say it sorrowfully, and only 
because duty requires the testimony — should never 
have given them countenance or patronage. In that 
school men are trained for villainy or nurtured in 
vice. The honorable exceptions are few in which 
we find persons attached to theatres who would be 
considered suitable companions for our children, or 
visitors at our homes. There is a taint upon them 
which we shun like the plague. Piety and true 
excellence are not encouraged by the associations of 

the play house. 

It remained for an actor to reach the lowest hell 

of crime, in plotting murders that should have throt- 
tled the nation ; cut every arm of its executive 
authority ; removed the leader of our armies, and 
struck down men who could have met and mastered 
the emergency. 

It was not a slaveholder Avho performed this 
execrable deed, and planned the whole diabolical 
scheme. The spirit of slavery is selfishness, that 
developes into lust and cruelty and every conceivable 
iniquity. We have always apprehended such mani- 



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festations, and often trembled for tlie life of our 
President. But slavery with its fascinations, pecu- 
liarly powerful over sucli a mind as that of the 
assassin, who was born and raised in a slave state — 
slavery with its abundant wealth, leisure, aristocracy, 
pretense and indulgences of every kind, poisoned the 
actor's nature. Familiar with tragedies where the 
dagger and poison played important parts, intoxi- 
cated by a vain ambition which the theatre fosters, 
he was ripe for any crime which might be suggested. 
If he had found his noble victim in the house of 
God, in the executive mansion, in the capitol, on the 
street or in discharge of his official. duties, we should 
have felt the stroke less severely — one bitter ingre- 
dient in our cuj) would have been wanting. 

The nation is humiliated — first by the traitoi'ous 
conduct of rebels, then by the sympathizing spirit of 
a portion of its citizens who wink at treason, and 
lastly by the murder of its President in a theatre by 
an actor ! What must mankind think of such a 
people ? How should we hide our heads in shame, 
and rise up to wipe away the dishonor by rejjent- 
ance and universal turning unto God. 

One thought has been driven deeply — go not to 
any place where you would not wish to be found by 
death. When inclined to turn aside into a doubtful 
path, think whether you would like to be discovered 
in that situation dead. I dismiss this point with the 
expression of a renewed determination to give no 
encouragement henceforth to theatres. 

Pecurring to the parallel instituted at the outset, 
between the crimes which wrapped the Netherlands 



DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 13 

in gloom, and threw a wliole people into mourning, 
and that whose keen edge has severed our hopes and 
laid them low ; we read in history that the assassin 
of Orange was captured, and subjected forthwith to 
the most excruciating tortures by the magistrates 
who shared the fury of the populace. Day after day 
he was put upon the rack, and finally " it was decreed 
that his right hand should be burned off with a red 
hot iron, that his flesh should be torn from his bones 
with pincers in six different places, that he should be 
quartered and disembowelled alive, that his heart 
should be torn from his bosom and flung in his face, 
and that finally his head should be taken oftV The 
execution of this awful sentence occurred in all its 
horrors, in presence of the multitude who apj^lauded 
the deed. That was vengeance. But the historian 
has pronounced it unjustifiable under the most aggra- 
vating circumstances, and no one approves it who 
possesses the humane spirit of Christianity. The 
criminal's ag-onies coukl not restore life to the mur- 
dered prince, nor confer honor upon his memory. 
Brutality could not accomplish the ends of justice, 
since it demoralized the popular conscience, and 
roused the fury of the enemy who sought satisfaction 
in blood for the sufferings of their hired assassin. 
Vengeance kindles all the malicious passions into a 
blaze, and provokes to the commission of new and 
greater crimes. Revenge has wasted nations, whelm- 
ing lives and fortunes, homes and treasures in one 
grave. Retaliation often defeats the highest ends of 
justice, and dethrones reason and right, setting up 
Had fury in their stead, which leads to extremes that 



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curse and destroy man's best interests, wliile God is 
unheeded and dishonored. 

Abraham Lincoln was right, and deserves the 
praise of all men for his unswerving observance of 
the humane principles of the New Testament ; for 
his leniency towards offenders ; for his genial com- 
miseration of the errors and crimes of rebels ; for his 
adherence to a policy which has saved the country 
from being demoralized in the midst of civil war ; 
which has taken from the foe every just cause of 
complaint, made their epithets of "tyrant" and 
"butcher" heaped on his name, the ridicule of the 
world, and given us a moral ascendancy more bril- 
liant than military renown. 

The heart of our people has beat tenderly towards 
the enemy. Throughout the war we have exhibited 
no malice or malignity. The bitterness and rage 
expressed, by their ferocious conduct, have only pro- 
voked our pity and scorn, while we sate in our quiet- 
ness and prosperity at home, or met them face to 
face on the sanguinary field. Hence the war has not 
degraded the loyal North, but rather elevated the 
tone of public sentiment, and educated us in all 
nobleness and beneficence. 

We were ready to forgive these misguided people 
in revolt, and extend them every generous and 
righteous privilege. We saw their towns burned, 
their plantations wasted, the beauty and glory of 
the land withered and tarnished, their wealth des- 
troyed, their pride humbled, their young men smit- 
ten, and, above all, their favorite institution, like 
Dagon, beheaded before the ark of God. We said 



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it is enough. God has visited upon them wrath 
without measure. In our triumph we were disposed 
to a lenity that was in danger of trenching on justice. 
Those haughty, cunning lords of the South, before 
whom Northern men have too often bent the syco- 
phantic knee, were ready to step once more into their 
old places of power, and recommence their conniv- 
ances and chicanery. Justice was likely to lose its 
rights; and justice has its place in human govern- 
ments and in the divine administration as well as 
mercy. He who had so far wisely conducted us and 
well, tempering sternness and severity with mildness 
and humanity, had done his work. He dies, lamented 
by millions, as no man was ever mourned since time 
began, and leaves a record pure and bright as any 
that history bears, and becomes the sublime inheri- 
tance of the American Republic to remotest genera- 
tions. The hand of secession strikes him down and 
maddens the nation. The enemy of God and of man 
seals its own doom and leads upon the stage one who 
has learned its nature by personal contact with 
slavery and the rebel chiefs, who knows how to deal 
with it as it inherently deserves, and who has demon- 
strated his courage and his purpose in earnest words 
and heroic deeds. And yet he is but a man — 
encompassed, as we have been painfully taught, by 
infirmity — and as such he needs our prayers and wise 
counsels and faithful cooperation. 

Moses, with all his great qualities and endowments, 
did not seem to be the approj3riate instrument with 
which God would chastise the idolatrous Canaanites, 
and he was laid aside by the divine decree when his 



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eyes liad cauglit tlie glories of the Promised Land. 
The work of justice, involving war and desolation, 
was committed to Joshua, in whose hands the sword 
was more firmly grasped and vigorously wielded. 
God, " Who executeth all things after the counsels 
of His own will," has permitted the painful event 
which prostrated our Moses, and introduced into 
power our Joshua. He will be immortal till his work 
is done. His mission ended, he will be compelled to 
make room for another, till all the purposes of 
heaven are accomplished on earth. " The Lord 
reigneth, let the earth rejoice." For " He doeth all 
thiugs well." Only let individuals and nations see 
to it that they run not counter to omnipotent justice; 
that they harmoniously co-work with Him who 
causeth all things to work together for good to them 
that love Him. 

In the review of our estimate and treatment of the 
honored dead, we see, perhaps, how grossly we mis- 
judged, how cruelly we maligned, how hastily we 
condemned, how blindly we murmured. It required 
all the exertions of calm, candid, thoughtful men to 
restrain the heated impatience and correct the false 
judgments which cast their long, black shadows 
across the land. Time has vindicated him whom 
God was leading in accordance with our prayers. 
My heai-t often ached when men by tongue and pen 
were depreciating and reviling the great and good 
man, I thank God that in all my prayers and 
remarks and influences, during both terms of his 
office, I ever stood by him unfalteringly, and 
defended and maintained him against all manner of 



DEATH OF ABRAHAM LIlSrCOLN. 17 

aspersion. No word of censure fell from tliese lips 
upon the head or heart of this man. AVhat an 
example did he himself leave behind of considerate 
charity. In his messages and speeches, who discovers 
aught that argues pride or malice, intolerance or 
selfwill? That late inaugural breathes the very- 
soul of Christianity, and would seem to have been 
written within sound of the Savior's dying prayer : 
" Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray that this 
mighty scourge of "war may speedily pass away. 
Yet if it be God's will that it continue until the 
wealth piled by bondmen by two hundred and fifty 
years' unrequited toil shall be sunk, or until every 
drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be repaid by 
another drawn with the sword, as was said three 
thousand years ago, so still it must be said that the 
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous alto- 
gether. With malice towards none, with charity for 
all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see 
the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are 
in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for those 
who shall have borne the battle, and for their widows 
and orphans. And with all this, let us strive after a 
just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all 
nations." 

These solemn words were utterances of the heart. 
We shall mourn most suitably and effectively, and 
acceptably to God, if we learn by our experience 
with Abraham Lustcoln. that tolerance, charity, 
moderation, patience and trust in truth and God, 
which he exhibited during his Presidential career. 

As our country has not yet emerged from the diffi- 
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18 FUNEEAL DISCOUESE ON THE 

cnlties originated by secession ; as tlie new Chief 
Magistrate is called to a post glorified by bis prede- 
cessor, a position of tremendous responsibility and 
hazard, as we cannot measure the situation nor 
realize all the conflicting interests that gather about 
him, and as we have been taught the fallibility of 
buman judgment by our past experience, may we 
practice towards Andrew Johnson that candor, 
patience, moderation and considerateness, which 
reason and Christianity suggest. In our haste we 
have ab'eady done him wrong, and prayed that he 
might never take the chair of state. God has rebuked 
our error, and once more reminded us that we should 
ever pray, " Thy will be done." Yet have we been 
instructed by his misstep : that in the Unchangeable 
Ruler alone can we infallibly trust." " It is not in 
man that walketh to direct his steps." May the 
mantle of the ascended chief fall on his successor, 
"and the wisdom of God be our salvation ! 

The death of our President seemed peculiarly un- 
timely — a kind of mockery of human life. With his 
blood God has written in broad characters upon all 
things earthly, " vanity" — " emptiness" — " disappoint- 
ment." We are so easily crazed by pros^^erity, that 
mankind idolize success. Had President Lincoln 
failed through unavoidable circumstances, his name 
would not have been revered as now. Had he lived 
to see the triumphant termination of the struggle, 
and the restoration of law and order, with universal 
freedom, and sunk to rest at a good old age, crowned 
with the love of a generous people, we should have 
recognized less clearly the need of divine grace and 



DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 19 

salvation to a perfect life. Now again the lesson is 
repeated, tliat men were not created to find their rest 
and perfection here. A miscreant, living in de- 
.bauchery, baying the government that shielded him, 
was able to destroy that living combination of good- 
ness and power which made Mr. Lincoln a great 
man ; to cut him off from the attainment of the prize 
that gleamed just before him in his upward career ; 
to plunge the nation into profoundest grief; to 
change the policy of a mighty people, and perhaps 
the destiny of millions ; and to demonstrate by what 
a slender thread are suspended all things dear to man. 
To those who study the nature and consequences 
of sin, this furnishes another illustration of the possi- 
ble evils that lie in gei'm within man's fallen nature ; 
another exemplification of the power of depravity ; 
a proof of the justice of God in forever excluding 
unregenerate sinners from the abode of the righteous 
in glory ; and an incitement to humble, unceasing 
prayer that we may be kept, purified, sanctified and 
made meet for the inheritance of the saints in light. 
Let us rest in the assurance that though he who per- 
petrated the deed may possibly escape human justice, 
divine wrath will pursue him to his remotest hiding 
place. " The wicked shall not go unpunished." 
" Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord." 
Much as I loved and honored him who was foully 
slain by a wretch that deserves no breath of air or 
breadth of space anywhere out of the bottomless pit, 
I still would not personally harm him, except in self- 
defense, or as an officer of the law, clothed with its 
authority, and burdened with the responsibility of 



20 FUNERAL DISCOURSE ON THE 

executing justice and maintaining order. Suet, could 
he return to life by a miracle of divine love, would 
be tbe feeling of that kind man who sleeps, alas ! the 
sleep that knows no waking. The idea of vengeance 
should be carefully excluded from every mind, and 
the spirit of revenge from all hearts. We may cry 
to God for justice, we may appeal to our magistrates 
for justice, but remembering that we too are sinners, 
that fortuitous events gave us birth in the North and 
determined our creed, that our late lamented Presi- 
dent, in the spirit of Jesus, counselled moderation 
and clemency, let us show the deeds of mercy, and 
push on the car of civilization to new elevations of 
humanity and Christ-like love. Let us not push it 
back into the old ruts of retaliation, persecution 
and barbarism. In the changeful affairs of this world 
the party in power becomes the minority, and is com- 
pelled to drink the cup it mixed for others. We may 
possibly be mingling a di-aught for the enemy now 
under our feet, that will afterwards be commended 
to the lips of our children. We shall be cautious 
what ingredients we infuse. There is no millennium 
at hand, so far as human vision can read the signs of 
the times. The more of Christianity we can diffuse — 
of pure New Testament charity and truth — the more 
hope for our race, the greater glory for ourselves with 
Him whose praise and rewards outweigh earthly fame 
and compensation as the universe surpasses an atom. 
It is not for me to say what should be done with 
the men of the South. But as for slavery, their 
curse and ours — a wrong and an evil which oppresses 
millions of men as deserving of freedom as ourselves, 



DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 21 

nurses barbarism, and subjects tlie whole nature and 
resources of men to selfishness, I would have it extir- 
pated root and branch, till every man is as free by 
birth, in the eye of the law, as in the sight of his 
Maker. I would have every avenue of improvement 
opened to all men without distinction. I would 
have schools and colleges and churches multi})lied 
over the whole land. I would have the ballot 
box untrammelled, and compel the people who have 
means to feel the necessity of educating and 
developing every man, because he has a vote and 
exerts an influence on the affairs of his country. To 
all I would add as the essential saving accompaniment 
a free Gospel, which the South has not had, preached 
in love and power, without let or hindrance, to all 
inhabitants of the land. We have lost two former 
Presidents ; but our country was not lost, because 
" the Eternal God is our refuge." He planted reli- 
gion and liberty on these shores, and has guarded 
and nurtured them throug-h wars and trials. To Him 
we owe the noble men who rocked the cradle of 
Independence, and cemented the foundations of 
Christian faith. For all our prosperity and the 
blessings that make us a happy people, we give 
thanks to God. And we glorify Him in our mention 
of the virtues and excellencies, the sayings and acts 
of the mighty dead. The life and character of Presi- 
dent Lincoln have become familiar themes which 
our poor pen can no further illustrate or adorn. You 
know the story of his life from year to year. The 
sturdy physical frame, untouched by disease, the 
genial good nature, the large tender heart, the broad 



22 FUNERAL DISCOUESE ON THE 

practical comprehensive mind, the patient candor, 
tlie generous enthusiasm, the cheerful courage, the 
invincible honesty, the earnest trust in God, and the 
wise reliance on the people, have been illuminated, 
and are known by heart. The distant historian, with 
larger acquaintance with secret information and rebel 
history, and looking at the mature results of his policy 
and character, will correct some of our judgments, 
but detract nothing from the splendor of his fame. 
Another name is added to the roll of great men 
which we proudly contemplate and regard among our 
treasures. It cannot be doubted that men will ever 
speak of him as next to the first Father of his 
country in his claim' on the reverence and affection of 
the American people. And even the descendants of 
the rebel South will learn that the bullet which 
sought his life, slew tlieir truest, safest friend. For 
he conceived that fidelity to his country was consis- 
tent with clemency and justice towards his infatuated 
foes. The race to whom he gave liberty, for whom 
he prepared a path to manhood, will cherish his 
memory with sacred enthusiasm, and aid in building 
high and enduring his monument. " A great, a good 
and a right mind," said the old Koman Seneca, "is a 
kind of divinity lodged in flesh ; it came from heaven 
and to heaven it must return." "While his dust 
claims our honors as it passes on to its last resting 
place, and the solemn pageant preaches of mortality 
and of sin's ruin, the soul that informed it reposes in 
the light of that countenance to which it was wont 
to be upturned in daily prayer. Freed from the 
anxiety, the temptation, responsibility, care, fatigue, 



DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 23 

fear and sin of earth, the immortal spirit shines, 
through the grace of Christ, " a star of day." Let 
this remind us that there is a life for man, in which 
the infinite perfections of spiritual being allure not to 
disappoint, where aspirations that know no limit 
shall be satisfied forever in the love of God. 

And now, friends, from the shattered image, majes- 
tic in the ruin which sin wrought and Providence 
repaired, from the creature, whose greatness is but a 
shadow of the Infinite, turn we to the Creator, 
Immutable and Eternal ! 

" Thou art the source and centre of all minds, 
Their only point of rest, Eternal Word ! 
From Thee departing, they are lost, and rove 
At random, without honor, hope or peace. 
From Thee is all that soothes the life of man, 
His high endeavor and his glad success. 
His strength to suffer and his will to serve. 
But oh ! thou bounteous Giver of all good, 
Thou art of all Thy gifts Thyself the crown. 
Give what Thou canst, without Thee we are poor, 
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away." 

Now unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, 
the only Wise God, our Savior, be glory everlasting ! 
Amen ! 



24 

REST, MARTYR, REST, 



BY JAMES G. GLAI 



I. 

'Tis finished ! On Columbia's head 

Doth gasping Treason pour 
Its seventh vial of fiendish wrath ! 

Her Father is no more ! 
The foulest deeds of Treason's life 

Which filled the land with woe : 
How vain beside its dying stroke, 

Which lays our Chieftain low. 

CHORUS. 

Rest, Martyr, rest, 

From the scenes of death and pain, 
Though murd'rous hands have stilled thy heart 

Thy noble deeds remain. 

II. 

Four years as chieftain did he toil 

To free our own fair land. 
And traitors all around him stood. 

To grasp it from his hand ; 
And in our nation's gladdest hour 

The assassin's hand was near ; 
It struck our noble Lincoln down — 

Columbia's hearts hold dear. 

III. 
The nation's heart o'erflowed with joy 

To see the conflict cease, 
And grim war's bursting clouds revealed 

The angel form of peace. 
The Union safe, the slave set free, 

By his kind heart and hand : 
Oh ! why must he, like Moses, die 

In view of Canaan's land. 

IV. 
We should not question Providence, 

Who wisely rules o'er all. 
And in His tender love doth mark 

The tiny sparrow's fall. 
But tremble, traitors, lest the wrath 

Your murd'rous act hath sown. 
Leave Justice free from Mercy's prayers 

To deal with you alone. 



FAST DAY SERMON. 



JUNE 1st, 1865. 



Upon earnest assurance that this hasty development of an important 
truth would do good, and round up this memento of events, solemn 
and awful beyond all precedent in American history, the author gives 
it to his congregation of loyal and patriotic men and women who have 
been behind none in devotion to the Union and its lamented Chieftain ; 
praying that when our sin shall find us out, we may stand in the shadow 
of the Cross of Jesus, who died and ever liveth " to save his people from 
their sins." 



Numbers xxxii. 23 — " * * And be sure your sin will find you out." 

The sin described by Moses in tliis threatening was 
national, or tlie sin of a people. As a nation is an 
aggregation of individuals, tlie declaration couched 
in the figure is applicable to every human being in 
his single solitary existence as well as in his asso- 
ciated capacity. " Be sure your sin," &c. " God 
will visit indignation ancf wrath, &c., upon every 
soul that doeth evil." There is a divine retribution 
evermore making itself felt in the world — an inevit- 
able punishment for guilty man. The tragic and 
awful events connected with the rise, progi-ess and 
overthrow of the Southern rebellion will not leave us 
wise unless we learn from them this great and 
momentous truth. 



26 FAST DAY SERMON. 

1. Tlie Divine Word bears in flaming characters 
on its portals, " He will by no means sjDare tlie guilty." 
As we enter and traverse the temple of inspiration, 
we read the same announcement in various forms. 
And the explicit doctrine finds am]3le illustration in 
historic pictures, which mutually explain each other. 
" The Lord thy God is a jealous God" written over 
Nebuchadnezzar's portrait sketched by Daniel, pours 
a flood of light on the prophet's work, which in turn 
reflects it on the Mosaic declaration. " Be sure your 
sin will find you out" is interpreted by the experience 
of Joseph's brethren when they trembled beneath 
the frown of the unknown stranger at Pharaoh's 
court. Like a hound pursuing the prey, though long 
bafiled or dallying with the victim till the master 
shall slip the leash, vengeance followed them to the 
brink of ruin, and sprang on them there in the hour 
of direst extremity. The canvas that bears the out- 
line of Herod's bloody career and terrible death is 
surrounded as with flaming torches by such texts as 
these : " Evil pursueth sinners." " Woe unto the 
wicked ; it shall be ill with him. For the reward of 
his hands shall be given him." " Our God is a con- 
suming fire." " Vengeance is mine, I -will rej)ay, 
saith the Lord." 

It seemed a strange thing for Jesus to sit down 
upon the Mount of Olives and contemplate Jerusalem, 
till tears started from his eyes and stole down his 
cheeks, as he predicted the consequences of her sin in 
rejecting the Messiah ; and more pathetic still for 
him to say to the Jewish women that bewailed his 
wretchedness and woe as he staggered towards 



FAST DAY SERMOM. 27 

Calvary, bleeding and suffering, " Weep not for me, 
but weep rather for yourselves and for your children." 
His prophecies were " idle tales" to the proud leaders 
and their deluded followers. But their sin found 
them out, and was described to them in language 
not to be misunderstood, as they and their children 
perished^ and their city disappeared in fire and deso- 
lation. " There is a God who judgeth in the earth ;" 
and "He will bring to light the hidden things of 
darkness;" and "The wheat will he gather into his 
garner, but the chaff will he burn mth unquenchable 
fire." 

2. The idea of a divine retribution pursuing sin- 
ners relentlessly, and inevitably bringing them to 
justice soon or late, seems to be interwoven with the 
consciousness of man. Like a thread deeply dyed, it 
appears everywhere running through all history, 
religions, languages and forms of speech. The better 
days of heathenism had a Nemesis or goddess of ven- 
geance, who never failed, however slowly she seemed 
to move, to appear at the opportune moment to 
punish crime. Her office affords a perfect illustration 
of the text. The criminal mio;ht think his deed 
unobserved, and congratulate himself on having 
escaped detection, and provided surely against it ; 
but the keen-eyed divinity, tracking the perpetrator 
long and surely, removed at last the veil, exposed 
him, and invoked justice on his guilty head. 

There was a proverb in ancient Greece — " The 
cranes of Ibycus," which expressed the prevailing 
sense of the age. Ibycus was robbed and murdered 
in a lonely spot. A flock of cranes were observed 



28 FAST DAY SERMOlSr. 

sailing above tlieir lieads as the villains finished their 
work. Time passed on. These murderers were 
sitting in the open theatre without roof, in Athens, 
and saw a flock of cranes hovering over the city. 
They said among themselves, " Behold the avengers 
of Ibycus." The remark was caught up by one who 
sat near. They were arrested, confessed the crime, 
and were put to death. Hence the proverb. 

All nations and times have similar phrases that 
unfold the popular faith in a sure retribution. We 
say, " Murder will out." The Greeks said, " Punish- 
ment is lame, but it comes." "The mill of God grinds 
late, but it grinds to powder;" or "The mill of God 
grinds small, but it grinds all." In these sayings 
lies the conscious assurance of penalty for evil-doing. 
" God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron 
hands." The same universal faith growing from 
conscience, and confirmed by observation and expe- 
rience takes the form of warning. • " Who sows 
thorns let him not 2:0 unshod." Well would it have 
been for the rebel chiefs had they suffered the pro- 
verb to save them from that sowing which has 
become to them a bed not of roses, but of thorns 
sharp as avenging justice can produce to pierce the 
wickedest criminals. 

Humbler proverbs flying about from lip to lip? 
repeat evermore the solemn assertion of the text. 
"Ashes always fly back in the face of him that 
throws them." " Curses, like chickens, always come 
Jiome to roost." 

The field of anecdote abounds with instances of the 
almost certain discovery and punishment of crime. 



FAST DAY SERMON. 29 

under all possible circumstances. History furnishes 
numberless corroborations of the truth that " God," 
as one has said, " will not let man alone. When 
man's passion is strong and bent upon indulgence, 
avenging justice may seem as if standing aside and 
inattentive ; but it is only that it may seize him with 
a more jDowerful grasp in the state of exhaustion that 
follows. When the plots of cunning and deceit are 
successful, it may look as if God did not observe 
human affairs ; l;)ut when the dishonest man is caught 
at last, he finds it to be in toils which have for years 
been weaving for him. It not uufrequeutly happens 
that every opposing power, which the wicked thinks 
he has crushed, rises up to pursue and punish him, 
when the tide of fortune is turning against him. 
Every drop of that cup of bitter elements which he 
has been fiEing for others, he must drink himself, 
when he has filled up the measure of his iniquities. 
The fagots which he has been collecting for the des- 
truction of others all go to augment the flame of his 
funeral pile. The drunkard is not more certainly 
haunted by the frightful apparitions called up by 
the disease which follows excess, than crime is pur- 
sued by its avenging spirits. There is, if we may so 
speak, a gathering and closing in at the death, and 
that to behold his agonies and humiliation, of all the 
powers which have been in scattered scent and pur- 
suit of him, throughout the whole hunting grounds 
of his career. It is afiirmed of the drowning man 
that in the brief space of time that precedes uncon- 
sciousness, every event of his past life passes in rapid 
review before his eyes ; and there is certainly some- 



30 FAST DAY SEEMON. 

thing of this hurrying in the avenging events, all 
having a connexion with his past life, which God 
crowds on one another, to make the ambitious, the 
proud and malignant discover that He has all along 
been ruling their destiny." 

No more notable and perfect example of this has 
been brought forth on the stage by poet or historian 
than God himself now presents to the scornful gaze 
of mankind. 

An intensely proud man, leader of a class who 
vaunted themselves in aristocracy, chivalry, and all 
these excrescences of human pride, who lorded it over 
his peers in the Senate of his country, and threatened 
dreadful deeds if his views and purposes were voted 
down by the nation, who actually forsook his seat, 
turned away with curses from the Capitol that 
enshrined a nation's glory and sovereignty, and 
waged war on the government of his fathers, which 
had given him and them peace, wealth and honor — 
returns to that Capitol a fettered, execrated, fallen 
wretch, laden with crimes too appalling for pen to 
describe or tongue to utter, humiliated by disasters 
more overwhelming than ever befel a rebellion, and 
disgraced by personal cowardice that led him to 
shun honorable, manly death in the last ditch, for 
attempted flight in the habiliments of a woman. Has 
not Providence demonstrated Himself in this accu- 
mulation of mortifying and painful events upon the 
Chief of the Confederacy ? What human ingenuity 
could have arranged for such a fall and humiliation ? 
The capital gone, the armies melted, the country 
a waste, the navy surrendered, the leader in irons — 



FAST DAY SERMOIS". 31 

with the horrible guilt of comj^licity in our Presi- 
dent's assassination fastened on them, their people 
disgusted with them, and hungry, and ragged, and 
beaten utterly ; their cities ravaged by fire and deci- 
mated by explosions ; the world deserting and 
scoffing at them, while the flag they trampled and 
defied, shines in new richness and beauty, known and 
honored throughout the earth ; the people they 
scorned, are pronounced the bravest soldiers in the 
world ; the cities they threatened, are stretching out 
their hands to grasp the wealth of all nations ; the 
fields they would ravage wave in luxuriant promise of 
unequalled harvests, while religion and education shed 
their blessings in unstinted profusion among a happy, 
prosperous people, whom he sought to humble and 
destroy. Does history show any thing like it ? 
Could our text have a more apt or impressive inter- 
pretation? And when at length justice shall have 
had its righteous sway, we may rej)eat the stirring 
passage in Mr. Keed's poem of Tuesday, with sad, 
yet more satisfactory exultation. 

" Once more within tliis marvelous Temple here, 

Let us exult o'er Treason's bloody bier — 

Exult like Miriam on the Red Sea's coast, 

Whose waves uniting drowned old Pharaoh's host. 

The billows of our union thus have met 

And overwhelmed and drowned the traitorous set ; 

And Liberty like singing Miriam stands 

With flashing cymbals in her lifted hands, 

Shouting her paeans gladly to the Lord 

For Freedom won and union thus restored." 

Can secession and rebellion have any future cham- 
pions ? Will any rash spirits ever dare to attempt 
the life of this nation ? Let them be sure their sin 



32 FAST DAY SEEMON. 

will find tliem out. It will find tliem out as light- 
ning shivers the oah, and leaves nought but splint- 
ered fragments and crisped foliage to tell the story 
of God's terrible and swift wrath. 

Thanks be unto Him who hath caused this 
haughty, boastful, insolent, causeless, diabolical con- 
federacy, to meet a ruin, both comical and tragical, 
to the last degree. The respect it once had has gone 
out like the snuff of a candle. It is a thing of deri- 
sion for mankind. How could He who hates slavery 
and loves freedom for man, have more effectually dis- 
honored and destroyed the slaveholders' rebellion ! 
It is not man's work but Grod's, and to Him be all 
the glory. 

We contemplate the murder of President LiisrcoLisr 
with horror ; and yet it is the tacit concession of the 
whole people, that this was the bitterest of the dregs 
of that cup which God was pressing to the lips of 
the South. In it culminated that spirit which has 
enslaved, and whipped, and robbed, and outraged 
generations of human beings ; which griped the 
nation's throat, plundered its treasury, and slew 
myriads of its best and bravest citizens ; which 
gagged and flogged, imprisoned, fined and banished, 
shot, hunted down with blood hounds, hung by lynch 
law, or starved freexcitizens who loved liberty and 
the flag of their fathers, and which treated thousands 
of our soldiers captured in war, like beasts and not 
like men. This was the climax of iniquity, and men 
read in it afresh the malignity and cowardice of aris- 
tocracy and chivalry, based on slavery. It is a crime 
against humanity, and virtue and love, as embodied 



FAST DAY SERMOIN'. 33 

witli rare perfection in our honored President. The 
guilt and stain gave a deeper crimson to the gory- 
dye of the confederacy, and left it without excuse or 
cham]3ion among men. And above all, it placed 
them in the hands of a sterner magistrate, who bears 
not the sword in vain. God permitted it for a wise 
purpose, to bring more dreadful vengeance on the 
guilty men, who bathed our nation in blood, and 
well-nigh robbed the human race of its best hopes 
of political welfare under free institutions. How it 
united our people — a common sorrow melting them 
into one brotherhood, and gathering us all at God's 
mercy seat ! It built for the mighty dead a monu- 
ment in every patriot heart. We forgot every 
thing but his virtues, and enshrined his memory 
among our most sacred things. It nerved us up to 
do justice, to allow the sword of Government to 
smite where treason invited the avenging blow, and 
God himself pointed His own finger and said — 
" strike." We bow under His Divine hand, and say 
from our hearts — " The Lord God Omnipotent 
reigneth, let the earth rejoice," " Shall not the 
Judge of the whole earth do right ?" 

The text is also verified in the assassin's marvel- 
ous career. He was a sinner from his youth up— a 
gross and reckless gambler and libertine. Petted 
and flattered, and partially successful, he doubtless 
felt none of the restraints which dread of Divine retri- 
bution imposes. Had he not thus far esca2:>ed the 
supposed evil consequences of his ungodly course, 
and was there not impunity for him ? He scarcely 
took to heart the experience of so many men like 
3 



34 FAST BAY SERMOlSr. 

Iilras^ilf, who seldom fail to have foretastes in this life 
of the perdition that awaits God's unrepentant ene- 
mies. Kebelling against every natural and providen- 
tial influence to save him^ he was suffered to plunge 
on till he came under the power of the temptation to 
make way with the President. His arrangements 
for the murder and escape were perfected with skill 
and promis-ed entire success. The deed was per- 
formed and the assassin leaped upon the stage shout- 
ing in triumph. But ^h ! his spur caught in the 
fokls of the flag and threw him, breaking his limb. 
How his well-laid plan was marred and spoiled by 
this simple Providence ! God so ordered that the 
emblem of our national authority, consecrated by 
patriot blood, should avenge its dishonor on the per- 
petrator of the foul crime that lowered it on every 
flag-staff over the whole earth where it swayed. 
Follow the bloody trail all along, and see how it 
involved by one means and another, the whole band 
of conspirators. And behold the villain in his lair, 
already smitten with death by his agonizing wounds, 
before the fatal bullet pierced him. See him writh- 
ing in tortures, and to the last, obdurate in his 
wicked exultation over the crime. Dying like a dog, 
he lies in a nameless grave, forever execrated by all 
good men throughout the world. There is no 
redeeming feature in the wliole transaction. Found 
out by his sin, he died as the fool dieth, having no 
hope and without God. 

We have all suftered and shall sufi'er to the end of 
life, and that because we have sinned and shall sin. 
Our case has been illustrated by that of an " Individ- 



FAST DAY SERMOM. 35 

ual who has coiniintted a horrible crime, wlien intox- 
icated, and is committed to prison while yet in a 
state of unconsciousness. On awakening to reflec- 
tion, he would make inquiry in reference to his past 
or present state ; but he finds that there is none to 
answer him. He utters a cry of alarm or agony, 
but no reply is given. He would conclude that he 
is abandoned by all ; 1>ut on turning round and 
round, he finds prison walls, with only so much of 
the li2:ht of heaven shiuino; throu2:h as to shoAv that 
pains have been taken to render his escape hopeless. 
What other conclusion can he draw than that he is 
shut up in prison, awaiting the time when he is to 
be brought out to trial ? Does it not seem as if man 
was in a somewhat similar position, abandoned and 
yet watched, spared in life, but spared as if for trial ? 
And it were well if, instead of seeking to drown 
misery l)y frantic merriment, or to beat uselessly 
against his prison walls, he was endeavoring to 
realize the nature and extent of that crime of which 
he is but half conscious, and anxiously inquiring if 
there be not some way of arresting the judgment 
which may soon be pronounced against him." 

Are we not summoned to such a course by the 
crimes and sufferings of the present time ? The 
catalogue of iniquities bears none which has not been 
perpetrated in our midst. The human race knows 
no form of woe that has not been realized among 
us of late. God's power and purpose to punish sin 
remain the same as when He revealed Himself to 
Moses. Who will not seek to humble his soul under 
the mighty hand of God. 



36 FAST DAY SERMON. 

If we see any national sin going forward, may we 
wash our bands of comj)licity with it, and strive to 
uproot it, lest it court the lightnings of His dis- 
pleasure. Slavery is dead. Would to God that 
intemperance, Sabbath breaking, and other crying 
sins were in the grave with it, to know no 
resurrection ! 

Going down into our hearts and searching our 
lives, we may find much that dishonors God. " Be 
sure your sin will hnd you out." We cannot bury 
our transgressions, nor hide our depravity and 
unbelief from the Omniscient. Why should we wish 
to do so, unless blinded and infatuated by Satan and 
love of evil ? God will forgive (and this is like the 
rising of the sun after a night of storm and darkness 
and terror), God will forgive those who confess 
and forsake their sins in the name of Him who " is 
able to save them to the uttermost who come unto 
God by Him." This truth relieves God of all 
imputations of malice. He is not vindictive. Just 
though He is, His justice is love and kindness to the 
men who serve him by holiness and benevolence, or 
who forsake their folly and wickedness in repentance 
and righteousness. The pillar of cloud and of fire 
that shone on the Israelites, and guided them, -was 
darkness and mist to the proud and heathen and 
godless oppressor. Jesus himself was severe and 
tender, never reckless or malignant. • Men slew him 
because they were condemned by his truth and 
virtues, as they did Abraham Lincolis', who loved 
righteousness and hated iniquity. Men resist and 
hate God who ^^'ould have all come to repentance 



FAST DAY SERMON. 37 

that they may not perish. How vain and futile 
their rage and opposition ! Yesterday, puling in the 
cradle, to-morrow, rotting in the grave, man wastes 
himself, as the waves that beat against the ever- 
lasting cliffs, when he rebels against Omnipotence. 
^' There is no cowardice in capitulating with God," 
We sacrifice nothing of our dignity, we compromise 
no principles of manliness or honor, but rather 
glorify ourselves Avhen we come to God and beg for 
mercy, and take up our neglected duty. 

As " Sin is a rej)roach to any people and righteous- 
ness exalteth a nation," may we, in j^ure love to our 
country, join those who are leagued to destroy sin, 
and promote righteousness. Unswervingly true to 
the God of our fathers, we shall best serve our 
native land and our common humanity. 

Our skies may not always be bright ; but the 
storms that fall will prepare for us new and greater 
blessings if we remain firm in our allegiance to 
Heaven's King. The nation will be reconstructed on 
a firmer basis, with freedom as its corner stone at 
every corner from ocean to ocean and from the lakes 
to the Gidf. Our enemies will yet rejoice in the 
new order of things, and submit to a better condition 
with patience and wisdom. A free gospel will wake 
to life and salvation the multitudes that throng our 
shores from both hemispheres, and " God, even our 
own God, will bless us !" 



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